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Was finally able to get it back togethor and refitted to the truck. Timed it up again and took it for a spin. Seemed pretty good, go Clints opinion comparing it to his Chev and have been putting a few miles on it since with no obvious issues.

Bit of an expensive excercise, but hopefully its good for a while now. 

Also noticed a leak coming from around the fuel pressure reg which is built into the back of the tbi unit. No idea what caused it, but I know it wasn't happening before I did dizzy/fuel filter. Maybe I bumped it and the old brittle gasket failed.

Anyway, the leak was just dumping fuel into the the tbi throats, so I'd say this was the main cause of overfuelling.

Ended up removing the unit and was able to get a rebuilt kit complete with a new fuel pressure reg unit from the guys at American Pickup parts Nz. 

Got the tbi unit stripped and cleaned ready for rebuild but then found a stripped thread on the fuel inlet to the injector pod. Found another complete tbi unit locally so brought that and robbed the injector pod from it.

The day after swapping dizzy I decided to put a fresh fuel filter in as I had never changed it in 5 years/17'000mi of owning.

Got that done and filled it up with fuel on my way home that night. 

As soon as it fired up to leave the gas station it started running rough as guts. Worse that it ever had. Took it home thinking it may have got a little water in tank but next morning it was still terrible. Overfuelling really bad.

Played with timing some more thinking I may have got it wrong and even swapped old dizzy back in incase new china one had shit itself already, but no change.

Found a split/taped up map sensor vac hose, so that probably didn't help the situation.

For the last year I had been having an issue where truck would die every now and again if idle dropped whilst changing from D to R etc. It progressively got worse and ended up being every time I came to a stop at a set of lights... I was having to left foot brake to keep the rpm up. 

Anyway, dizzy/cap & rotor looks like they were from ww2 so figured I would replace the cap/rotor but It was only an extra $60 for a complete new dizzy from Afwe. Got it swapped out and truck ran mint....

For a day.

Havn't had much time for my own junk lately, but had to do some repairs on the Gmc.

I took it to work about a month ago after it had been parked up for a good 3-4 weeks and heard a horrendous grinding/ratteling noise. Found that the waterpump was on its way out and I had thankfully caught it before a complete collapse.

Probably the easiest waterpump I have done. So much room between engine and radiator once the fans removed. 

Tried repairing it but ended up having to grab a new one from Sta Parts..

So yeh, the people have spoken Clint, hop to it...

Looking siiiiick. I hope you keep that patina. 

Rotorua spotto today.

1.2mm wire is a bit hefty for 6mm imo. Its likely that you are having to run the machine a bit too hot to melt the thicker wire, but that extra heat is burning the edge away.

Assuming you are watching the weld pool and washing it down a bit when it looks like its going to burn the edge, you could try playing with the inductance setting if you machine has it. May not help much with spray transfer though.

Can you switch to 0.9 wire? Might give you a little bit more control over the heat input. 

The 2023 Open Bootlid Nationals was a success!

Mint day, cheers to all who came along, and thanks Clint for your organisational capabilities.

Anyone from Hamilton way heading along? Where ya's meeting up beforehand? Mate from T.A whose not on the forum is going to cruise up. 

6 hours ago, GMH63 said:

Getting ready for an engine swap?

I tried for years to buy that Pullmax from Graeme. Always got the same old yarn. "Oh we've got a list of people out the door who ask about it" 

Don't have space for another anymore

Its an odd one that machine because it was British made. I posted pics years ago on the Pullmax/Recip machine Fb page and Terry was fizzing over it. Fairly rare compared to Swedish made machines by the sounds and possibly the only nameplate like that he had seen. 

Be interesting to see if it sells in the current climate. 

Ooof, sounds pretty horn. Big milestone, nice work!

11 hours ago, kiwi808 said:

Spotted this sweet looking Monaro in Goooooooore.

Wowee, that guy fucks.

Some hiluxs had an Lspv, some didn't. Some systems are just proportioned through the master cyl sizing.

If he drove it, and the rear locked up, or he had it on rollers and the rear was too harsh and you can't adjust it out at the drums, then you'll have to fit a prop valve to dial it them in.

If brakes are fine without, nicely balanced front to back, then hes just being a retard.

7 hours ago, MRWEST said:

Zayne Young in Paeora owned it back in the day when it first got built probably round 2010 or 2011ish,

Had a injected 13b pp in it back then thing was mint think from memory he struggled to sell it for like 22k or something haha.

yeah ended up with 13B Turbo and a tremac, then longley bought as a rolling body with the box i think then on sold and ended up with the 20b in it.

Jacques had it around 2015. Not sure what motor combo it had then. 

Pretty sweet that its had black plates forever. 

4 hours ago, dabuzz said:

These are the pressed floors which might be available again soon

Vs the bead rolled panels from Mike's custom panels which don't quite have the same depth, but still look pretty good.

 

Nathans pressed ones are pretty good for the price. But they are missing a few details. Be good if the tooling was refined a bit more or some secondary tooling was made to add in the extra detail. I heard he moved on from that company? Is someone else possibly going to do another run? I had to transfer a bit over from the orig floor so it was a bit more 'correct'. Still, for what it cost I couldn't even mark out a pan.

Mikes look decent for a bead roll jobby. I wonder what they are worth. Shame about the split, but I have the same bead roller and they can only swing 900mm so I understand why he had to do it like that. Cool to see someone else taking the time to do them though. Alot of effort, but way better than patching. 

9 hours ago, oldrx7 said:

Fair enough - 2.5k is a lot for a bonnet!!!!  Either way, car looks amazing.

I was going through pics I've got and trying to figure out which bonnets would belong on what car.  Not many of the pics I've got would have 'correct' bonnets fitted to the year.

 

 

2 big design flaws make them pretty hard to find in good condition.

They have rust traps along the front of the inner frame where the hinge reinforcing is. Traps shit and the frame rots through.

And the bonnet stay setup. When the plastic roller fails, the bonnet stay doesn't work, so people over-tilt the bonnet which either stresses the frame and pops the old brittle glue off the skin along front, leaving it to flap around and eventually stress crack, or the over-tilting just buckles the outer skin.

Looks great Kelly. How much work did they have to do to the bonnet in the end? Was it a 'skin off frame' job or not that bad?

Locked in. 

1 hour ago, Mr.Mk1 said:

I’m getting Chevy LUV vibes 

Yeh your in the money. Isuzu Kb20 most likely. Pretty rare find in this country. I've only come across a handful over the years.